Tooth-brush holder.



J. KIRSCHBAUM.

TOOTH BRUSH HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 20. 1915.

Patented May 16,1916.

JOHN KIRSCHBAUM, 0F WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

TOOTH-BRUSH HOLDER.

Specification of Letters iatent.

Patented May 16, 1916.

Application filed July 20, 1915. Serial No. 40,842.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN KIRSCHBAUM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tooth- Brush Holders; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of. the

.same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in;

Figure 1 a face view of a tooth brush holder constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 a side view of the same. Fig. 3 a top or plan view. Fig. 4 a trans verse sectional view showing the brush in Fig. 5 a sectional View on the line c-.d of Fig. 3.

This invention relates to an improvement i in tooth brush holders adapted to be secured to the wall or other convenient place, the object being to produce a devise in which the bristle portion of the brush will be inclosed, and which permits of the ready entrance and removal of the brush through the front of the casing; and the invention consists in the construction hereinafter described andparticularly recited in the claim.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a casing 2 of suitable size and provided with ears 3 and 4 by which the device may be secured in place. The edges 5 and 6 of the sides .7 and 8 fi are outward to form guides, and in the bottom 9 is a notch 10. The front of the box is closed by doors 11 and 12 which are preferably formed with integral lugs 13 which enter suitable perforations formed for them in the top and bottom of the case adjacent to the flaring edges 5 and 6, so that the doors may be swung inward or outward. To hold them in the closed position, I attach a spring 14 to each door, each spring being a piece of flat spring wire the upper ends of which project through slots 15 in the top of the cas mg, so that the ends of the wires will be held against turning. To insert a brush it is pushed against the face of the doors l1 and 12 which swing inward as indicated in broken lines in Fig. 4, the springs twisting as the doors move inward, which, when the brush is inserted, will swing back into place under the torsional power of the springs. To remove the brush, it is pulled outward, causing the doors to swing outward as also shown in-broken lines in 4, this outward movement twisting the springs, but in the opposite direction to that in which they were twisted when the brush was inserted. The doors are thus always held in the closed position, yet readily yield as the brush is inserted or removed and the brush can be inserted or removed by a single operation requiring only one hand.

It will be understood that the size of the notch in the bottom corresponds to the size of the brush employed, the bristle portion of which is usually slightly larger than the handle, or the handle is formed adjacent to the bristle portion with a contracted neck so that the brush will be suspended.

I claim As a new article of manufacture, a toothbrush holder adapted to be fixed in an upright position and comprising a casing having top, bottom and side Walls, having an open front flanked on either side by diverging vertical guide-flanges, and havlng a forwardly opening slot in the sald bottom wall for the reception of the handle of a tooth-brush, and the said tooth brush holder also having a pair of yielding vertically arranged doors pivotally mounted in the said casing so as to close the open front thereof, and located just in the rear of the said flanges.

JOHN KIRSCHBAUM. 

